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The Health and Care Act enacted the most significant reforms in a decade

The Health and Care Bill received Royal Assent on 28 April 2022 to become the Health and Care Act 2022. The Act included a variety of measures relating to the health and care system and formalised a system that works at three levels: system, place and neighbourhood. What does that mean?

Will the NHS ten-year plan realise the government’s ambition to build an NHS that is fit for the future?

The NHS ten-year plan is expected to be released in June 2025 with three core ambitions: shifting hospital to community care, analogue to digital and treatment to prevention. Whilst the formal detail is yet to be released, this is anticipated to mean:

• Hospital to community care
  A move to bring care closer to where people live, including through a new neighbourhood health service to deliver more proactive and personalised care to patients.
  
  
• Analogue to digital
  A rolling out of new technologies and digital approaches to modernise the NHS that will, amongst other things, seek to bring together a single patient record, owned by the patient that will be shared across their care teams.
  
  
• Treatment to prevention
  An ambition that will seek to shorten the amount of time people spend in ill health by preventing illness before it happens, securing earlier diagnosis and improving the management of chronic conditions.

Creating, planning and adjusting an effective integrated care system that will address the ambitions of the ten-year plan will be challenging...

Whether it’s a provider collaborative or a place-based partnership seeking to realise the shift from hospital to community care, or a NHS provider or commissioner seeking to pilot and/or procure a new place or system wide EPR or other digital solution, our Integrated Care hub page includes a wide range of resources to help provide answers and guidance on a variety of legal issues specifically for those working at or with systems, place-based or neighbourhood levels.